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Director of 皇冠体育app Prince of Wales鈥檚 EU Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, Director of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership鈥檚 EU Office and Executive Director of the Green Growth Platform, Sandrine Dixson-Decleve visited Budapest on 17 June 2015 to meet senior economic policy makers, financial sector representatives and leaders of the Hungarian Economic Association.

Follow-up visit to the New Climate Economy Conference in Budapest

皇冠体育app visit was initiated by the Chairman of the Hungarian Fiscal Council and President of Hungarian Economic Association, Mr Arpad Kovacs. It took place on Climate Diplomacy Day, and focussed on low carbon finance solutions and the role of the financial sector in the low carbon transition.

Ms Decleve recorded a with her host in the Parliament, gave a radio interview and met the Hungarian President鈥檚 sustainability adviser.

Ms Decleve recorded a video blog with her host in the Parliament, gave a radio interview and met the Hungarian President鈥檚 sustainability adviser.

皇冠体育app visit was a follow-up to the New Climate Economy Conference and high-level discussions by the Hungarian Economic Association, the British, French and German Embassies in February, which identified the finance sector鈥檚 interest in learning about the UK鈥檚 low carbon finance experience. 皇冠体育app timing of the visit also served to amplify the messages of a related paper by the Green Growth Platform: Financing Global Low Carbon Transition.

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Working with Hungary, the Embassy publicises the UK鈥檚 experience of introducing policies for green growth, tools for evidence-based policy making, mainstreaming climate and low carbon policies into the wider economic decision-making and industry.

We work with various partners to advocate the need to secure a global climate change agreement and to inform Hungarian policy makers about the economic benefits of low carbon policies as drivers of sustainable economic growth.